Poetry Writing: The Expert Guide - Hardcover

Fiona Sampson

 
9780709085416: Poetry Writing: The Expert Guide

Synopsis

Written by the editor of Poetry Review, this book leads you from first explorations through to the business of getting published. Systematic, it provides exercises and practical information and builds up to a complete method but also allows real individual literary merit. This is a volume which is inspiring and well-written and it is this which will distinguish the book and give it a long shelf-life both with individual purchasers and in the market. The book has to be something to which aspiring poets return again and again. That creative writing teachers and group members recommend. How does it do this? By including motivational techniques, examples and the attitude that poetry is a fascinating imaginative adventure.

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About the Author

Fiona Sampson has published fourteen books - including poetry, philosophy of language and books on writing process - of which the most recent are Common Prayer (Carcanet, 2007), On Listening (essays, Salt, 2007) and Writing: Self and Reflexivity (with Celia Hunt, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Other prizes include writers' awards form the Arts Councils of England and Wales and the Society of Authors, and, in the US, the Literary Review's annual Charles Angoff Award. She has a PhD in the philosophy of language and was AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Oxford Brookes University in 2002-05. She is Creative Fellow at the University of Warwick/RSC Capital Centre for 2008-09. Fiona is also the editor of Poetry Review.

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